Dante (name)
Dante is an Italian given name and surname. Etymologically, it is short for an old given name, Durante, and was first made popular by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, whose real name was Durante.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Arts and entertainment
- Dante Agostini, Italian-born French drummer and pedagogue
- Dante Alighieri, 14th-century Tuscan author of The Divine Comedy
- Dante Basco, Filipino-American actor
- Dante Daniel Bonaduce, American actor, comedian, radio personality, television personality, and professional wrestler, known professionally as Danny Bonaduce
- Dante Bowe, American Christian musician
- Dante Cappelli, Italian actor
- Dante Carver, American actor
- Dante David, Filipino radio disc jockey known as "Howlin' Dave"
- Dante DeCaro, Canadian guitarist/songwriter
- Dante Ferretti, Italian art director
- Dante Leonelli, American sculptor
- Dante da Maiano, 13th-century Italian poet
- Dante Maggio, Italian film actor
- Dante Marioni, American glass artist
- Dante Micheaux, American poet
- Dante Pereira-Olson, American actor
- Dante Quinterno, Argentine comics artist
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter
- Dante Smith, American musician, actor and poet
- Dante Spinetta, Argentine singer/composer
- Dante Spinotti, Italian cinematographer
- Dante Testa, Italian actor and director
- Dante Tomaselli, American screenwriter and director
Politics and law
- Dante Arthurs, Australian child murderer
- Dante Caputo, Argentine politician
- Dante Carnesecchi, Italian anarchist
- Dante Fascell, American politician
- Dante "Tex" Gill, American gangster and massage parlor owner
- Dante Tiñga, Filipino politician and jurist
- Dante Troisi, Italian writer and magistrate
Sports
- Dante Agostini (canoeist), Italian sprint canoeist
- Dante Amaral, Brazilian volleyball player
- Dante Benedetti, American baseball coach and restaurateur
- Dante Bichette, American Major League Baseball player
- Dante Bonfim Costa Santos, Brazilian footballer
- Dante Boninfante, Italian volleyball player
- Dante Booker, American football player
- Dante Brown, American football player
- Dante Calabria, American basketball player
- Dante Campbell, Canadian soccer player
- Dante Cunningham, American basketball player
- Dante Dowdell, American football player
- Dante Exum, Australian basketball player
- Dante Fowler, American football player
- Dante Hall, American football player
- Dante Harris, American basketball player
- Dante Hughes, American football player
- Dante Lavelli, American football player
- Dante López, Paraguayan football player
- Dante Love, American college football player
- Dante Magnani, American football player
- Dante Marini, American soccer player
- Dante Marsh, Canadian football player
- Dante Micheli, Italian football player
- Dante Miller, American football player
- Dante Mircoli, Argentine footballer
- Dante Moore, American football player
- Dante Nori, Canadian-born American baseball player
- Dante Olson, American football player
- Dante Anthony Pastorini, American football quarterback known as Dan Pastorini
- Dante Pettis, American football player
- Dante Ridgeway, American arena football player
- Dante Rivera, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Dante Rosario, American football player
- Dante Rossi, Italian water polo player
- Dante Scarnecchia, American offensive line coach, assistant head coach for the New England Patriots
- Dante Senger, Argentine footballer
- Dante Stills, American football player
- Dante Washington, American soccer player
- Dante Wesley, American football player
Other
- Dante Giacosa, Italian car designer
- Dante Lauretta, American chemist
Surname
- Joe Dante, American director
- Michael Dante, American actor, stage and screen director and former professional athlete
- N'Faly Dante, Malian basketball player
- Peter Dante, American actor
Fictional characters
- Dante (Devil May Cry), the protagonist of the video game series Devil May Cry
- Dante (Fullmetal Alchemist), a villainess in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist
- Dante (The Walking Dead), from The Walking Dead comic book series and the television series of the same name
- Dante, one of the Titans in the Legends of Dune series of novels
- Dante, in the American television series One Tree Hill
- Dante, the leader of the Mountain Men in The 100 TV series
- Dante, in the James Joyce novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Dante, in the comic strip Sheldon
- Dante, the main character of Demon Lord Dante
- Dante, a Mexican hairless dog from the 2017 Pixar movie Coco
- Dante Adams, in the 2010 video game Medal of Honor
- Dante Alighieri, the main character in Tage Danielsson's book and film The Man Who Quit Smoking
- Dante Dalmatian, a puppy on 101 Dalmatian Street
- Dante Damiano, on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
- Dante Falconeri, on the soap opera General Hospital
- Dante Fiero, a businessman in the American sitcom Parks and Recreation
- Dante Hicks, the protagonist of Clerks, Clerks 2, and Clerks: The Animated Series
- Dante Koryu, main protagonist in the anime Beyblade Burst Rise
- Inferno (Dante Pertuz), a Marvel Comics superhero
- Dante Quintana, from the novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Dante Vale, a major character from Huntik: Secrets & Seekers series
- Dante Zogratis, villain in the anime Black Clover
- Baron Dante, the villain of video games Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Croc 2
- Jack Dante, the evil genius inventor in the film Death Machine
- Kerberos Dante, a Saint Seiya character
- Silvio Dante, on the HBO TV series The Sopranos
- Dante, the protagonist of the video game Limbus Company
- Dante, a playable frame from the video game Warframe
- Lord-Commander Dante, a Space Marine leader in the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000
- Dante, a dateable object in the video game ''Date Everything!''